My final video

Monday, 8 October 2012

Videos Which i would like my video to look like



I choose to look at Ben Howard - Keep Your Head Up, because i really like the way it has been filmed and it is different to all other videos as it does not have the singer sing at the camera, and i don't want to focus on that either i want to focus more on the surroundings and having really pretty shots like which they show throughout this music video.

In this music video they use many different cinematography, I like how the music video starts when it is hand held and close ups of the bubbles, by filming this hand held it gives us the sense of floating and being relaxed. There is a lot of long shots, which sets the scenery, and shows the sunrise which tells us they have been working a long day as by the end the sun is going down. 
There is a lot of focus pulls used throughout this video and mainly focusing on the bubbles. The denotation of this is we see bubbles, but connotation is that it shows the child side of them and the fun they are having. Also it makes sense when we see what they are building and the bubbles could be coming from the slide.
The bubbles also work as they look like the bokha affect but makes it look like this effect is actually there and moving.
A lot of the words in this song relates to what he is doing, such as "I'm walking back down this mountain" and there is a hand held shot of him focusing on the bucket walking back down the mountain.  Again when it talks about his skin we see his feet by using a point of view shot in the water and then a shot of the sun form an ants eye view, which is shinning on his back.  By these shots it allows us to relate as most of us have had these senses. Also at " keep your head up, keep your heart strong" when he is working hard it shows that you have to be strong and keep going with what he is doing, when moving hay bales and lifting them.
When they are finnaly finnish what they were doing the music speeds up and he starts running, shown using a hand held camera, this builds the excitement and then we get to see that they were making a water slide, when going down slide they use mixtures of shots such as long shots, close ups, hand held facing themselves showing their reactions.  The editing through out this is quite constant linking all the different locations especially when walking up mountain, they used the technique jump cut to help show this. But all together i think this video worked and shows that you don't need to put a lot of money in to making a good music video. 




I really like the Idea of putting some reverse into my music video, to make it more interesting to watch.

I would like to use  some of the ideas from the song i have chosen Drunk on love. Throughout this video there is many edits, such as cross cuts and jump cuts. These cuts are shown in two different camera effects, from sepia which shows her warm and happy side and having fun as this colour relates to her mood, and the other colour is black and white, when she is not with him, this is more of a cold angry harsh mood being showed. All of these edits are in time with the base in the music, which makes them predictable but entertaining to look at. 

 We see many different cinematography used throughout this music video from zoom outs, low angle shots, ants eye view shots, (which makes Rihanna look more powerful) used also looking at feet while dancing shows us the skill while doing this. They then use a dutch tilt and a birds eye view to show us the old men playing domino's and smoking, unaware of them dancing. We see subjective shots looking through a smashed window looking at Rihanna.


Towards the end of the song we see them dancing again but this time it is in black and white and shown with scratches over the lens this tells us that the relation ship between the two is not as happy and quite damaged as before. 


The Mis-en-scene which we see are all quite old looking from the car to the old men, it gives a wild western feel especially with the sand and dust, but there is binary opposites form her brightly coloured 'normal' room with blue walls and busy room,to the outside emptiness and same colour. you see more binary opposites, from black and white to young and old. 


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